Comprehensive Rural Opportunities Program

Wealth Watchers’ Inc. Comprehensive Rural Opportunities Program enhance the coordination of outreach, technical assistance and education efforts to reach socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers in the rural areas of Florida, with a special emphasis in Central and Northeast Florida along with Southeast and Southwest Georgia. Wealth Watchers assist farmers and ranchers with successfully acquiring, owning, operating and retaining farms and ranches and increasing participation in the full range of USDA programs.

Wealth Watchers Inc. through its’ C.R.O.P Initiative:

Assist veterans with increasing their knowledge and participation in the agriculture business and creating opportunities to create and grow small businesses and family farms.

Work with farmers to increase their participation in USDA programs such as: the Risk Management Agency, Farm Service Agency loan programs, and Natural Resource Conservation Service cost-share program

Increase knowledge and youth participation in agricultural entrepreneurship through careers in agriculture and mentoring families to interest the farm children in careers

Create mentorship programs which will match experienced farmers with beginning farmers for the purpose of increasing the knowledge and increasing capacity to access capital and other USDA resources

Form associations, organizations and cooperatives to gain profitability for small, minority and limited resource farmers

Promote the use of alternative agricultural practices through increasing small farmer’s knowledge of sustainable agriculture and innovative new projects

Conduct outreach to landowners and operators to identify their demographical information and address their needs

Provide farmers with technical assistance on both conventional and alternative agriculture enterprises and practices for the purpose of increasing profits

Identify opportunities to utilize the farm labor housing loan program

Inform the collaborating families of value-added enterprises and specialty market opportunities, as well as resources and credit opportunities

Provide farmers with training, especially in financial management and bookkeeping

Encourage and train farmers to use computers, identify risk management techniques and enterprise opportunities that enhance their income